A Very Young Planet Challenges Science
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Researchers find a very new exoplanet.
- A2
Researchers have found a new exoplanet.
- B1
Researchers have found a new exoplanet.
- B2
Researchers have recently made an amazing discovery in space.
- C1
Deep within a swirling disk of gas and dust, situated approximately 450 light-years from Earth, a newly confirmed celestial body is changing our understanding of space.
- C2
Deep within a swirling, primordial disk of gas and dust, situated approximately 450 light-years from Earth, a newly confirmed celestial body is upending our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- exoplanet
- A planet that orbits a star outside our solar system.
- confirm
- To prove that something is true or correct.
- mass
- The amount of matter in an object.
- orbit
- To travel in a curved path around a much larger object such as the Earth, the sun, etc.
- gap
- An empty space or opening in the middle of something or between two things.
- surround
- To be everywhere around something.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.